[wsf-c-dev] Embedding AXIS2/C into mysql (new topic)

[James Clark]

>    I checked how microsoft sql server and oracle had done the topic.
> What they have done, is embedding webservice functionality into
> the database server (what we were talking is little different).

Even so, the way they handle mapping between XML and relational data is
very relevant to what we are doing. See for example

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/SQLXML

There's a ton of stuff there.

I see the difficult problems as:

- handling updates

- being able to automatically generate the WSDL and XSD (and, no, using
xsd:any is not good enough)

- being able to use a single description to generate both a
service-oriented interface accessed using SOAP and a resource-oriented
interface accessed using HTTP and XML (providing a genuinely RESTful
interface isn't just a matter of using GET/POST appropriately, it also
involves making sure that resources are identified and linked together
using URIs that are opaque from the client's perspective)

I think we are still some way from a design that solves these problems.

James